If elected president, Ron DeSantis says "he would aim to revoke China's permanent normal trade relations status," according to Reuters. The Republican Florida Governor said as much during an interview with Fox News on Sunday, adding, "I think we probably need Congress but I would take executive action as appropriate to be able to move us in that direction."
Per the outlet's reporting, "The Senate voted in 2000 to grant that status to China as it prepared to join the World Trade Organization . . . The status is a legal designation in the US for free trade with a foreign nation." Calling China "the No 1 geopolitical threat this country faces," the presidential hopeful is up against Trump in the next election, "who leads the Republican field currently in the polls with DeSantis a distant second." Trump has said "he would give China a 48-hour deadline to get out of what sources familiar with the matter say is a Chinese spy facility on the island of Cuba 90 miles (145 km) off the U.S. coast."
